Nomi Prins, PhD
Macroeconomist, Geopolitical Finance Expert, Bestselling Author & Founder Prinsights Global
Nomi Prins, PhD
Macroeconomist, Geopolitical Finance Expert, Bestselling Author & Founder Prinsights Global
Biography
Dr. Nomi Prins, PhD, is a macroeconomist, geopolitical financial expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author. She is the founder of Prinsights Global, an independent research firm focused on macroeconomic trends and strategic investment analysis. Its flagship publication, Prinsights Pulse, provides actionable insights for investors and policymakers.
Nomi previously held senior positions on Wall Street, including Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns in London, Strategist at Lehman Brothers, and Analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank.
She has testified before the U.S. Senate and advises both U.S. and international government officials on finance, economics, infrastructure, and energy development. She serves on the board of Meteoric Resources, a rare earth elements mining company, and on the advisory boards for the National Infrastructure Bank and Ethical Markets.
Nomi is the author of seven books, including Permanent Distortion, Collusion, All the Presidents' Bankers, and It Takes a Pillage. Her writing has appeared in outlets such as Fortune, Forbes, The Guardian, The New York Times, and The Nation. She is a regular guest on major outlets such as CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox, BBC, and other global media platforms.
She holds a B.S. in Mathematics from SUNY, an M.S. in Statistics and Operations Research from NYU, and a PhD in International Strategic Studies with a specialization in International Political Economy from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Speaker Videos
Speaking Reel
Financial Crisis: The Bailout
Criticizing the Federal Government
Speech Topics
Central Bank Collusion & the Financial Crisis: A Decade Later
More than a decade after the financial crisis, Nomi is more in demand than ever. Her executive level international banking, advisory and speaking experience, coupled with her best-selling books on the topic have all been well received by the international academic and professional community. Following the unprecedented turmoil that COVID-19 leveled on the global economy, central banking and monetary policy has emerged more influential than ever before. Understanding not just how central banks became global powers but what’s coming next is crucial to navigating the rapid dynamics of politics, economics and society. Her books cover historical developments and underpinnings of international finance, economics and international affairs - and how the three intersect. Her latest book Collusion: How Central Bankers Rigged the World explores critical themes and events since the financial crisis globally. It provides guidance and prescriptive with which to understand and navigate current global financial complexities and trajectories.
International Relations, Pandemics, Trade Wars, Market Trends & Portfolio Positioning
The post-pandemic world will be one in which interest rates, quantitative easing and central banks coordinated response will have seismic shifts in super power hierarchies. International trade institutions are actively experiencing major kinetic changes that will shape the world for decades to come. In the financial response by leading institutions like the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank and the Bank of China what we’ve seen is monetary policy influence recovery efforts and long-term financial intervention. China has increasingly jumpstarted its strategy of foreign direct investment, financial market activities, and long-term projects in unprecedented ways. Nomi has been traveling the world researching this shift from the ground up. Forget what you read in international papers and hear in the financial media, Nomi will address your organization through her distinguished first-hand experience. She is not one for sugar-coated punditry. She reveals how the rise of a New World impacts your investments, business decisions, and strategies.
What Does a Post-Pandemic Economy Look Like? Is Another Financial Crisis Looming? Navigating Volatility, Managing the Risk & Prospering in a New Era
In this speech, Nomi will focus her considerable experience and analysis on the complex issues underlying inherent global and national volatility. The impact of COVID-19 and the instability that neither the main stream media, federal agencies nor governments want you to know -- or completely understand themselves. What should you do for protection? This talk is critical for all professionals charged with investing, monitoring accounting practices, compliance, legality and risk.
Through the Noise: How Monetary Policy & Geo-Politics Impact Economies & Markets
Even before the 2008 Crisis, big banks have been getting bigger in more ways than one through decades of mergers and the expansion of allowable financial service. Since the 2008 Crisis, that trend has accelerated. Now, facing a post-pandemic world, monetary policy is shaping the global economy and deciding wines and losers from Wall Street to Main Street, Not only have the biggest banks grown bigger, but in the process, they have taken more customers, deposits and financial investments along the way. How do you keep your edge? How can you remain a player instead of getting played? What can you provide your customer – from dedication to funding and less risky performance standards – to make you a better choice than your larger competition? Nomi Prins will address these critical issues for today's small businesses, local or state bank associations, pension fund managers and other investment advisors.
Presidents & Bankers, Wall Street & Washington, Governments & Big Finance
Power is about more than wealth. Power extends beyond understanding capitalism in contrast to socialism. Rather, it's about the ties, strategic alliances and partnerships that transcend the world from Wall Street to the White House. It is understanding who gets resources and who is left behind. Based on original and exhaustive research into the family ties, vast history and deep connections between US presidents and major US bankers since the establishment of the Federal Reserve, Prins reveals the evolution of American power domestically, and its ongoing ramifications on the international community from the US to Brazil, China to Japan, the United Kingdom to Mexico and Europe to the Middle East. She explains how historical interactions that shaped today’s policies, influenced leaders and fashioned the geo-political environment we have today. These connections will surprise you and offer insights on alliances that impact our rapidly evolving financial, economic and geo-political world.